Label and management luminaries join Columbia's N.E.R.D. to celebrate the platinum certification of their single "Lemon" at the Brooklyn Museum. Later, Columbia chief Ron Perry enjoyed the exhibit on Assyrian art and noted that his stylin' new suit was almost as comfortable as a hoodie, but gets a little wrinkly when he sleeps in it. Seen before making the tastiest lemonade ever are...

When your honoree has a candy heart and has spent the past half-century crafting songs that embrace the cracked humanity that so many miss with gentle compassion, you have a rare moment of pure grace. For John Prine, the onetime Chicago mailman turned chronicler of the human condition, BMI created just such a moment for its presentation of the Troubadour Award Monday night.

We’ve got ourselves some building drama, folks, as the fourth quarter looms. Remember Super Bowl LI in early 2017, when Tom Brady led the New England Patriots back from a seemingly insurmountable 25-point deficit in the middle of the third quarter to overtake the stunned Atlanta Falcons in overtime? The 2018 label marketshare contest could provide us with the music-biz equivalent of that improbable comeback.

Create Music Group has signed scalding hot rapper 6ix9ine to its newly formed music publishing division, Create Music Group Publishing, in what’s described as a multimillion-dollar worldwide agreement. The deal comes on the heels of “FEFE” (10K Projects/Capitol), his smash with Nicki Minaj, and just days after the release of his first Spanish-language track, “BEBE,” featuring Puerto Rican star Anuel AA.

Radio legend Bob Waugh visits the HITS offices, only because he was going to see Dave Matthews and didn't manage to sneak by unnoticed. Editor in Chief Lenny Beer, having smoked three joints and a potted fern, declared, "Me love jam bands! Me jam on bongos now." Fortunately, Bob was ushered into the green room just in time. Seen waiting for the radio edit of this photo are...